Typing UTF-8 characters in IDLE

[kazuo fujimoto]

Ricky,

I found your message now, because I also would encounter the same
problem.


> A few unicode tutorials on the web show that it's possible to type
> unicode characters into the IDLE gui...
> 
> However, when i type korean (hangul) characters it complains:
> 
> Unsupported Characters in input
> 
> I don't have a great understanding of unicode, but when I use a UTF-8
> source file with korean strings in, and run it as a CGI script it
> works fine.
> 
> I'm using python 2.3.3 on win XP.
> 
> Any tutorials / info anyone could point me to? Thanks...

Now I am using Hangle with Japaese. 

What I did is as follow.

My Python is now 2.4.3

1) open the IOBinding.py in $python/idellib
2) see the block just after line35, and insert one line.
----
encoding = "ascii"                                       # line 35
if sys.platform == 'win32':
    # On Windows, we could use "mbcs". However, to give the user
    # a portable encoding name, we need to find the code page
    try:
        encoding = locale.getdefaultlocale()[1]
        codecs.lookup(encoding)
    except LookupError:
        pass
    encoding = 'utf-8' ## <- this line force the encoding to utf-8.
-----
3) save the file and quit Idle and reopen Idle.

I hope my experience will solve your problem.

(It has passed 2 years and more, so you might already solve the problem.
I you know better solution, please inform me.)

kazuo